The buzzard may indicate that this local train has set in the siding for too long. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.
CSX Coal Train C237 heads south through downtown Brewton, AL., on a cloudy January evening
As the sun breaks free from partial cloud over, CSX Q601 rolls south on CSX's Mobile & Montgomery Subdivision with KCSM "gray ghost" 4554 on point. After breaking a knuckle sixty-four ca... (more)
T.R. Miller Mill 44-ton #11 working at Brewton, AL in May 1972. This was a forest products company and the bards on the front of the locomotive allowed it to push lumber buggies into the kiln.
Q521 holds the main near downtown Brewton, while a northbound empty grain train makes its way onto the siding and local traffic goes by.
Q617 creeps through downtown Brewton trying not to hit any motorists.
Northbound manifest from Mobile; this was a usual consist on the daily morning manifest from Mobile to Birmingham. It was refreshing to take a break from my consulting duties in Brewton, which co... (more)
Eastbound local running down the main street of Brewton.